Bill’s Im-Perfect Time Management Adventure begins with an anonymous email – it warns Bill, an engineer at Syscon, that he's on a list of project managers at risk of layoff. A conversation with his boss confirms his fears – his poor time management skills threaten his financial security and his family’s well-being. To escape failure, he must improve dramatically, and fast.
In quick succession, he tries several prescriptions for better time management – a new smartphone, a popular book and a colleague-turned-coach. None yield the results his management team wants, and he sinks deeper into panic. To make matters worse, Syscon temporarily transfers him to another company: a cost-saving move that the company has used in the past a precursor for permanent separation.
Backed against the wall, Bill finds space to think, and he discovers the need for every working professional to develop an individual time management system. He tests his ideas on himself before speaking up to his colleagues-